Part I: Objective of Christian CounselingDr. Larry Crabb's book “Effective Biblical Counseling: A Model for Helping Caring Christians Become Capable Counselor” Crabb, (1977), this book models how counseling can be gracefully integrated into local church implementation. The goal of Christian counseling that Dr. Crabb states in his book Crabb, (1977), is that "any approach to counseling that is truly biblical will work most effectively when carried out in the context of a local body of believers" (p. . 13 ). As Dr. Crabb states in his book that “The goal of biblical counseling is to promote Christian maturity, to help people enter into a richer worship experience and a more effective life of service” (p. 31), this allows them to grow spiritually and allows them to focus on the issue biblically and scripturally. The goal of biblical counseling is to assist believers and non-believers through the word and prayer. Ephesians 4:22-24 states, “You were taught, regarding your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is corrupted by its deceitful desires, ...